The most affordable, fastest and feature rich Word component for .NET on the market Aspose.Words enables .NET and Java applications to read, modify and write Word documents without utilizing Microsoft Word.
Aspose.Words supports a wide array of features including document creation, content and formatting manipulation, powerful mail merge abilities, comprehensive support of DOC, DOCX, RTF, WordprocessingML, HTML and PDF formats. Aspose.Words is truly the most affordable, fastest and feature rich Word component on the market.
Aspose.Words is not a visual control, but a class library with object model similar to Microsoft Word Object Model. Developers, who used Microsoft Word Automation in their projects before switching to Aspose.Words, will find names and behavior of many classes, methods and properties familiar. The Document, Section, Paragraph, Bookmark, Range, PageSetup, ParagraphFormat, Font are some of the Aspose.Words classes.
At the same time, Aspose.Words is quite different from the Microsoft Word Object Model in that it represents the document as a tree of objects. In this aspect, Aspose.Words is similar to classes found in the System.Xml namespace of the .NET Framework.
If you have worked before with XmlDocument, XmlNode and XmlElement in .NET, then you will find it is easy to understand and work with Aspose.Words' classes Document, Node, CompositeNode and their properties and methods FirstChild, ParentNode, NextSibling, ChildNodes, InsertAfter, RemoveChild etc.
Here are some key features of "Aspose Words for NET":
Business Benefits
Avoid Microsoft Word automation in your .NET and Java applications.
Design reports or template documents in the familiar environment of Microsoft Word, not in a custom report designer.
Build or modify documents and formatting with ease using an object model similar to Microsoft Word Object Model and System.Xml.
Populate documents with your data using just a few lines of code.
Generate or process thousands of documents such as reports, letters, invoices, forms in minutes.
General Features
Open and save DOC, RTF, WordprocessingML, HTML and TXT documents.
Save documents in the Office Open XML format.
Save documents in the Aspose.Pdf.Xml format that can be used by Aspose.Pdf to produce PDF files.
Use Aspose.Words from within a COM or ASP application and pass data as ADO Recordset.
Aspose.Words installation includes easy-to-understand demo projects for ASP.NET, Windows Forms and Swing with source code in C#, VB.NET and Java that you can use to build your reporting application in minutes.
Document Manipulation Features
Programmatically create, modify or remove sections, headers, footers, paragraphs, lists, tables, rows, cells, text, fields, form fields, bookmarks, images and other document elements.
Specify detailed formatting for sections, paragraphs, text, rows and cells at runtime.
Join or split documents, copy or move fragments between documents.
Insert and format complex document elements such as images, hyperlinks, fields via a higher-level programming interface.
All drawing objects including shapes, textboxes, images, OLE objects and controls are fully preserved in documents. Most of the drawing objects can also be programmatically created or modified.
Insert HTML fragments into the document.
Access and modify document built-in and custom properties.
Protect and unprotect documents.
Mail Merge Features
Use standard Microsoft Word mail merge fields or bookmarks in your reports.
Use Aspose.Words extended syntax for mail merge fields to perform more complex operations during mail merge such as insert images or repeatable regions.
Populate and dynamically grow tables or fragments in the document from your data source using mail merge regions.
Populate the document from any .NET data source such as DataSet, DataTable, DataView, DataReader or from an XML file.
Populate the document from any Java data source that implements the ResultSet interface.
Take precise control, such as number formatting, over how your data is merged into the document using events.
Requirements:
.NET Framework
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